Woman construction worker: light skin tone Emoji

People

A female figure wearing a yellow safety hardhat, rendered here with a light skin tone. She is designed to represent a professional working on a job site, building, or repair project.

Usage Context

This emoji is used to discuss construction projects, DIY home renovations, or general hard work. It serves as a gender-specific alternative to the standard 👷 emoji and is often grouped with 🏗️ or 🛠️ to signify an ongoing task or a site in progress.

History

The woman construction worker was added as part of the effort to increase gender representation across professional emoji categories in 2016. It combines the original worker icon with a ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence to pair the character with the female sign, reflecting the industry's shift toward more inclusive visual language in digital communication.

Details

Glyph

👷🏻‍♀

Unicode

U+1F477 U+1F3FB U+200D U+2640

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f477_1f3fb_200d_2640:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC77;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;‍♀

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person-role

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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